COLONIALISM AND THE OBJECT

Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Obj ect explores the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial natio n.The book includes intensive case-studies of objects from India, Pakistan, New Zealand, China and Africa, all of which were collect ed by, or exhibited in, the institutions of the British Empire, and key chapters address issues of radical identity across cultural barriers,...[Read more]